The District Court of Hamburg issued a ruling on 12 May 1998 - 312 O 85/98 - "Liability for links", that responsibility must be taken for the contents of any webpages which can be accessed by links from one's own website. This can only be avoided by expressly distancing oneself from these contents.

We hereby expressly distance ourselves from the entire contents of all linked pages on our website and do not adopt these contents. This statement applies to all links published on our website and to the entire contents of any sites accessible via the banners and links published on our site.